Travel with Angela Lansbury: Osteria Modigliani

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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Mother's Day - Fully booked? What other options?

Update 2026, May. You can still dine at Gilbert's Restaurant in Grimsdyke Hotel in Old Redding, and Sea Pebbles for fish and chips in Hatch End, and Café Rouge restaurants in London. Mr Alfredo Fellini's latest restaurant is Midori. For nostalgic reasons, I leave this old post with writeups of the long gone and lamented for their decor as well as wonderful food m Hawtrey's restaurant at the Barn Hotel in Ruislip and Osteria Modigliani in Pinner..

Problem
I did a bit of ringing around for somebody who wanted to invite his mother for mother's day lunch in London, England.

I found
Grimsdyke Hotel
Tel
£39 per person lunch fully booked. They are also doing tea and dinner.

The Barn Hotel, Hawtrey's restaurant, mother day lunch at £38.95 per person. Full booked.
Tel: 01895 636057.

As they say of vineyards, the time to plant is twenty years ago. The time to book mother's day lunch is not the night before. It's getting like the Edinburgh Festival. You have to book for the following year.

My other favourites:
HATCH END, PINNER & BUSHEY HEATH
Pinner

Osteria Modigliani

New On The Block
Porta Grande, Italian cuisine (took over from Fellini)
www.portagrande.co.uk
tel:0208 428 4359.
The Steak Restaurant, 316 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, HA5 4HR, tel 0208 421 2878.

Old On The Block
Black Pepper, 461 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End HA5 4JA.
http://www.blackpepperrestaurant.co.uk/index.php?page=home
'At the heart of Hatch End', says their website, neatly alliterative. I've had great meals here many times, over the years.

Sea Pebbles, 352 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner HA5 4HR. tel 0208 428 0203.
seapebbles.co.uk
Chips is what they are famous for. (For Americans, British chips are like French fries but more potato. Not potato crisps.)
Sea Pebbles has another branch at 114-116 High Road, Bushey Heath WD23 1GE but I think the Hatch End branch is bigger and better atmosphere and great murals.
They ran an ad in Optima saying @5% off food NOT drinks, last Monday of the month. Next ones would be March 26th, and April 23rd, which is St George's Day, England's national day and Shakespeare's birthday, but Sea Pebbles ad said their last day of the month offer includes bank holidays.

Café Rouge, Pinner

With two family birthdays in the month of March I get to see vouchers for Prosecco which last up to 6 weeks from the birthday, which is great, as it's hard for us to get all the family in one country at one time.
www.caferouge.com
French style chain with 120 restaurants across the UK, in London at Pinner, Ruislip and many more. Large venues so you have a higher chance of getting a table. The Ruislip branch has a parking area behind the restaurant.
Huge menu. Everybody is bound to see something they like.

If you can't get into an upmarket, gourmet restaurant, you could opt for a cheap meal out try a pub or a carvery. However, be prepared for a race track of children.

People may complain that you should treat mother well every day of the year, or for a meal out every Sunday, but the commercialisation of Mother's Day seems to be a great success for restaurants.

If all else fails, treat mother on Monday or Tuesday or next week. But those who are at work, and have the funds to take mother out for a meal would prefer a Sunday, so maybe next year.

Useful Websites
UK wide : www.caferouge.com

http://www.blackpepperrestaurant.co.uk/index.php?page=home
www.caferouge.com

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g7380842-d1415050-Reviews-Friends_Restaurant-Pinner_Greater_London_England.html
www.portagrande.co.uk
seapebbles.co.uk
thesteakrestaurant.com
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1869831-d2358851-Reviews-Water_s_Edge_Stonehouse_Pizza_Carvery-Ruislip_Greater_London_England.html
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/marvellous-meal-at-osteria-modigliani.html

REGIONAL
Worth a trip:
http://www.theharrowatlittlebedwyn.com
High price high quality Michelin restaurant. Get on their mailing list for reduced price meals and special offers for your special occasions.

Stay overnight with a meal:
http://www.huntsbridge.com/index.php?pageid=13
Grimsdyke Hotel
The Barn Hotel

Author
Angela Lansbury

Friday, February 2, 2018

How To Find Osteria Modigliani, Italian Restaurant, and see the best of Pinner, and Harrow in Middlesex, NW London, and what to see in Pinner

Problem
How do you find my favourite restaurant in Pinner?

This is Pinner, looking downhill towards the station on the left, which is beyond the

High Street leading to the church. On the left immediately to the left of the picture foreground is St Luke's.

Looking uphill, the sign of Osteria Modigliani is on the right. Opposite, on the other side of the road, is Lidl supermarket.

For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.

Before or after you have lunch, you might want to look around Pinner. If you come out of the station and cross the road you are at the entrance to Pinner Park. On a fine day, it's very pleasant to walk across to the pond and the aviary. Walk around to the other side of the pond to see the building housing the Heath Robinson Museum. Heath Robinson was a cartoonist who drew amusing complicated contraptions. Even if you don't have the time or money to visit the museum, you would enjoy looking at the bookshop and maybe buying a postcard or book or two.

Back on the Station side of the road, instead of turning left towards Osteria Modigliani, go up the other street ahead of you. On the right is the old Victory pub, named after Nelson's victory, and now a restaurant. On the left is another old pub in Tudor style.

The Bizarre Coffin In The Sky

At the top of the High Street is a church with the coffin in the sky, a coffin in the middle of an obelisk. Why? Because of a will saying about somebody being underground. To get around the will, the coffin was kept above ground.

Pinner has been in quite a few films which you might have seen in cinemas or on television. I like to think of it as pretty Pinner.

From Pinner, you can take the train to Harrow on the Hill and if you have the time and energy walk uphill to see Harrow on the Hill, pass the Castle pub, and the quaint shops and the old school Harrow, where Churchill went to school. In summer the boys wear straw hats. The school has a museum and museum tours and other events.

If you take the train into London, you can stop at Baker Street for Madame Tussaud's or the Sherlock Holmes Museum. As Jonson said, "Whoever is tired of London is tired of life."

For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.

osteriamodigliani.co.uk

visitbritain.com/gb/en

visitbritain.org

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/wine-museum-and-olives-and-olive-oil.html

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/osteria-modigliani-fine-italian.html

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/marvellous-meal-at-osteria-modigliani.html

Also see my posts on Umbria, Perugia, the City of Lovers and Valentine's Day.

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer